The reason for this year's rise is a fluke in the transition rules used to carry out the provisions of the 1986 law.

The state's current transition rules call for the Senate president to step in when the governor leaves the state or resigns.

He says that but for what I did for him in '86 with the transition rules, he'd be out of business.

Members of both panels are eager to add new transition rules to the package.

The new measure also drops some transition rules from the tax law that were mistakenly included in the final draft.

Such transition rules typically are in effect for 5 or 10 years to protect workers near retirement.

A mathematical model for the transition rule in Piaget's developmental stages.

The transition rules for atoms translate via the tight-binding model onto the crystal.

Using local transition rules, cells cannot know the total count of all the ones in system.

Further complicating the matter are the transition rules.